Excerpt from Life and Letters of Archpriest John Joseph Therry: Founder of the Catholic Church in Australia Manly. Quotations from these are noted as from Manly Archives. A few of the earlier letters have already been published by the late Cardinal Moran in his monumental History of the Catholic Church in Australia. The vast scope of that History left but little space for a full account of the early days of the Australian Church, and I feel that the Cardinal would have been the first to welcome this more detailed account of a period to which he gives but passing notice in a general survey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.